By the Christmas Fire

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Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 5 8:415, 800, 12 December 1891.

First line

A penny for your thoughts, sweet wife!

Notes and attribution research

Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Mrs Matheson was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/370). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 13223

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